Anna Karenina trailer

Nicola Pagett (Upstairs, Downstairs) is Tolstoy’s doomed heroine in this superb 1977 BBC adaptation of the epic novel. Taking its time, the Emmy®-nominated miniseries covers not only Anna and Vronsky’s romance but also Levin and Kitty’s. Many fans consider this the best of all filmed versions, truest to the book; the costumes are splendid. Filmed in Budapest, the Hungarian countryside, and England (Soviet Russia under Brezhnev wasn’t available). With Stuart Wilson as Vronsky and Eric Porter as Karenin.